Long Schizophrenics Poems

Betty was bonafide crazy. She had shot her husband after a night of drunken quarreling, and was in the state mental hospital instead of being in the slammer. She'd shot the louse in the stomach...

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The Needle’s House
 Waiting For the Third Time Out
 Arabic Poem by: Salah Hassan *
 Translated into English by:
 Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
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Between me and me there is a civil war!
 It’s my war...

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CHRISTMAS AT THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Of all the holidays that come and go
Christmas is the one that we love best.
No matter how crazy, it just goes to show
we love the yuletide in the cuckoo’s nest.

We deck...

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I preach love
to hearts sterilized by hatred.
No joy,
only trauma in these grieving souls.
My dignity has never worn chains.
I appreciate my life
by watching all its dramas unfold.
To be a free and just man
is not a crime.

No...

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My psyche's playground
Is a horrific landscape:
There is no escape 
From the snagging cleft
Of its jagged inlay,
As steep as a million years of seeping blood
Coagulated through coldheartedness 
Confusion and subterfuge 
- It's like coming home when...

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Urgent Surgery, A C-Section in three seconds
Look lady! 
I'm trying to save you and the baby
Nurse Fox prepare the Incision sit
Nurse D please hand me a scalple
To save the Mother
Science says its impossible
And I'll be...

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Angels we have heard on high,
Blowing trumpets in the sky,
Helping us to breathe a sigh,
Of Joy that we shall never die,
Angels we have heard on high,
Saying love is truth that ties,
Us all as one these...

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ever wonder what happens to the mentally ill when they run out of money?

 

 

after 37 years of struggling with

schizophrenia &

enduring the pleasures of homelessness,

(which the empire wields oh so well upon its citizens)

kelly...

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maybe if we were living in a world 
where dollars and cents made no sense 
maybe then we'd have some reason to... 
talk to each other 

maybe if we all had the same interests 
and...

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I would rather be a statistic!
My little girl is my world, my star and my universe
distant from the unbearable quasar which is her mother
I cannot describe her while maintaining homeostasis or my positive energy
Vulgar clouds...

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A dozen different faces and more appearing out of nowhere
These past few months as somewhat intriguing, their possibilities ?
I myself stumbling through another fall yet always the same season it seems
Brushed the canvas blue in...

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Scorned coquette
perched so solemnly
upon your death stool,
claw deep the fresh flesh of victors
bearing armfuls of decaying flowers
stolen from your mother’s grave.

A diverse parade -
clairvoyants and gigolos
tyrants and schizophrenics
junkies and Jesus freaks;
you seem to attract
an unending...

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Oscar Levant, American Author, Comedian, Music Composer and more,
Was born in the early 20th Century and died in the 1970’s 
Each decade, or era has their comedians – below is one of Mr Levant’s quotes,


TWO...

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The spirituality of sound
of a gong
of a loon
the impossible grieving
of morning doves
the cracking of ice
the drone of urban streets
trucks rumbling
over wooden bridges
a cat’s purr

There’s a need to hold sound
to feel its pulsation
to see colors of...

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Morning has come
To this hamlet in the hills,
They have an internationally funded hospital
(Net of ‘inflation’ artistry in contractors’ bills).

Lady Macbeth, rinse your hands,
You will nurse in the hospital now.
The Companies have this experimental drug
For schizophrenics.
They...

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I was learning, how
not to catch you.

Called the cloud
hugging a hillside.
Can you climb on the road ?
No , it said, I want to play with the moon.

So,
this was becoming,
without presence.
An epiphany ? No it was...

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Is there such a word as,
schizophobia,
and if so,
am I afraid of schizophrenics, nay,
for I fear of assuming its characteristics.

They will WRAP me like a mummy,
then CELL me in a padded room.

There is no escape from...

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alcoholic actors age artificially
frustrated feminists fornicate fiendishly
clever cops cripple conspiracies
nervous nannies neglect nurseries
morbid ministers murder martyrs
jealous judges justify junkies
lazy lawyers liberate lunatics
paranoid pimps pacify prostitutes
emotional eccentrics execute evangelists
gullible gangsters glorify graveyards
horny hypocrites horrify humanists
impotent invalids...

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